Amelia (cont.) Essay on conversation. Essay on the knowledge of the characters of menJ. Johnson, 1806 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 86
עמוד 10
... lady herself very roundly to task , treated her designs on my father as little better than a design to commit a theft ; and in my passion , I believe , said , she might be ' ashamed to think of marrying a man old enough to be her ...
... lady herself very roundly to task , treated her designs on my father as little better than a design to commit a theft ; and in my passion , I believe , said , she might be ' ashamed to think of marrying a man old enough to be her ...
עמוד 11
... lady , and how little I had injured her in my suspicions . ' Hitherto , I trankly own , my aversion to this match had been principally on my own account ; for I had no ill opinion of the woman , though I ' thought neither her ...
... lady , and how little I had injured her in my suspicions . ' Hitherto , I trankly own , my aversion to this match had been principally on my own account ; for I had no ill opinion of the woman , though I ' thought neither her ...
עמוד 15
... lady had spent one day only at my father's house in near two years : it was about a month • before his second marriage . At her departure , she took occasion to whisper me her opinion of the widow , whom she called a pretty idiot , and ...
... lady had spent one day only at my father's house in near two years : it was about a month • before his second marriage . At her departure , she took occasion to whisper me her opinion of the widow , whom she called a pretty idiot , and ...
עמוד 44
... now burst forth into some very satirical invectives against that lady , and declared she had the art , as well as the wickedness , of the devil himself . Many congratulations now passed from Mrs. Ben- net to Amelia 44 AMELIA .
... now burst forth into some very satirical invectives against that lady , and declared she had the art , as well as the wickedness , of the devil himself . Many congratulations now passed from Mrs. Ben- net to Amelia 44 AMELIA .
עמוד 50
... lady did to whose as- sistance he had been summoned . It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all ; for a secret is often innocently blabbed out by those who know but half of it . Certain it is , that the maid's speech ...
... lady did to whose as- sistance he had been summoned . It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all ; for a secret is often innocently blabbed out by those who know but half of it . Certain it is , that the maid's speech ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 418 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
עמוד 419 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
עמוד 255 - Do you not know, * doctor, that this is as corrupt a nation as ever * existed under the sun ? And would you think of ' governing such a people by the strict principles of •
עמוד 421 - For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
עמוד 364 - Good-breeding then, or the Art of pleasing in Conversation, is expressed two different ways, viz., in our actions and our words, and our conduct in both may be reduced to that concise, comprehensive rule in Scripture: Do unto all men as you would they should do unto you.
עמוד 144 - The nature of man is far from being in itself evil: it abounds with benevolence, charity, and pity, coveting praise and honour, and shunning shame and disgrace. Bad education, bad habits, and bad customs, debauch our nature, and drive it headlong as it were into vice.
עמוד 403 - Thus while the crafty and designing part of mankind, consulting only their own separate advantage, endeavour to maintain one constant imposition on others, the whole world becomes a vast masquerade, where the greatest part appear disguised under false vizors and habits...
עמוד 79 - O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff or Gulliver ! Whether thou choose Cervantes...